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...Analysts predict that Gore can capture the necessary votes to win Florida only if the dimpled chads are permitted. But even if Gore does take the lead with the help of the dimpled chad, the uncertainty surrounding admissibility leads to a new maze of political and legal possibilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warning: It May Not End by Monday | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

Zewinski says the project has not progressed through Cambridge's complicated regulatory maze since the MCNCDC granted its approval. "[The Knafel Center] is by far the most complicated regulatory project I've dealt with," he says...

Author: By Melissa R. Brewster, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Building Boom | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...there is the Mark Twain National Forest, which spreads over 1.5 million acres in Missouri. Unlike other national forests, Mark Twain is a maze of public and privately held lands cobbled together in the 1930s after Missouri was virtually clear cut to make ties for the transcontinental railroad. Hidden in Mark Twain's hills and hollows are more methamphetamine labs than anywhere else in the nation and an immense acreage of cultivated marijuana. The forest also harbors more specialized hate groups than anyplace else in America. Its denizens, who proudly call themselves hillbillies, are among the most independent, suspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Perfect Firestorm | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...Square is Moscow's Times Square. There is hardly a Muscovite who has never dived into the long underpass, colloquially known as the Pushka, that runs under the square, across Tverskaya Street and down to three main subway lines. So when a bomb went off in the cramped concrete maze last Tuesday at the height of rush hour, it did more than just tear the flesh of the 11 people who died and the 96 who were injured. It also charred the nation's hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Exploded Hope | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...drama playing at my local theater." Instead, I had to say "movies" (pause), "Upper West Side" (pause), "drama" (pause). Then, after listening to a long list of films, I had to bark out more commands to get show times. Speaking like a robot and getting lost in a verbal maze was so annoying I was forced more than once to hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speak Up, Will Ya? | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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